Arts & Culture

Martin Puchner shares his knowledge of Rotwelsch in his new book, “The Language of Thieves: My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate.”

A.R.T.’s annual holiday show, “Jack and the Beanstalk: A Musical Adventure,” is a joyful respite. The 55-minute streamed event is available through Jan. 4.

The four-day Student Composers Festival begins this week, featuring work by 30 Harvard students and recent alumni. The festival is the creation of Veronica Leahy ’23.

“The Garden” is a new arts course that lets students explore tools and ideas across the disciplines of visual art, film, dance, and music.

A panel of museum experts discuss the ways in which museums, which are quintessential colonial institutions, can recreate their missions and practices to respond to social unrest and demands for inclusion and representation.

A panel of food experts explored the cultural connections between food and gender during a recent talk sponsored by Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.

The Harvard Art Museums may be closed due to the coronavirus, but virtual visitors can still connect to its vivid treasures thanks to some art-loving Harvard undergraduates who are leading gallery tours from across the globe.

Led by student convenors, Harvard’s LitLab brings literature to casual gatherings.

Seattle-based actor/writer Sara Porkalob brings the full “Dragon Cycle” to A.R.T. as part of the “Virtual Oberon” lineup.

Kevin Young ’92, the newly named director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, discusses his life and work.

“The Architecture of Democracy” examined how buildings, and their designers, contribute to the shape of our society.

Chris Killip, 74, renowned documentary photographer and former professor of visual and environmental studies at Harvard, died on Oct. 13.

Diane Paul talks to the Gazette about the Tony recognition of “Jagged Little Pill,” the A.R.T.’s wide-ranging fall schedule, and the very survival of theater itself.

Book confronts historical, ethical questions posed by Zealy daguerreotypes.

Marc Brew, artistic director of AXIS Dance Company, spoke about how his company has adapted to the conditions set by the pandemic.

“Jagged Little Pill,” which premiered at the American Repertory Theater, was nominated for 15 Tony Awards, the most of any show from the 2019-20 Broadway season.

The Harvard University Committee on the Arts has awarded 12 activist artists with one-time, no-strings-attached honorariums of $2,000 and an open invitation to present at Harvard.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) announces it 2020 fall season of virtual programming.

Students and faculty in the Theater, Dance & Media program think creatively about how to put on a show in the age of COVID.

Harvard’s Ed Portal uses art to kick off a conversation about self-care for people of color.

Rhiannon Giddens reflects on her new role as the Silkroad’s artistic director, and where she sees taking the ensemble in future.

Gwen Thompkins celebrates the music of her home state every week on her comprehensive and joyful radio show.

On Oct. 2, the Theater of War will mount a digital performance of “Antigone in Ferguson,” sponsored by Harvard’s departments of Theater, Dance & Media and the Classics.

With time flattened by quarantine, Professor Deidre Lynch proposed a reading group with her friend Yoon Sun Lee ’87, an English professor at Wellesley College. “Clarissa” was their choice — all 1,500 pages — and the readers soon followed.

Madeleine Klebanoff-O’Brien ’22 used her fellowship at Houghton Library to focus on Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy,” creating a fully image-based research product.

Actress and activist Jameela Jamil talks cancel culture, fatphobia, and diversity in Hollywood in a discussion with Harvard students.

“A New England Document” by Che R. Applewhaite ’21 profiles Lorna and Lawrence Marshall and details their extended expeditions with their children to Africa’s Kalahari Desert starting in the 1950s.

Thomas Piketty translator Arthur Goldhammer talks about his circuitous route to success in a field he never studied.

Radcliffe dean and library director shed light on some of the historical issues framing the “Long 19th Amendment Project.”

Harvard AV technician Rudy Hypolite spent two years following five young Boston men around with digital cameras to make his documentary “This Ain’t Normal.”